There is hardly a project floated either by the State or the Union Government which can be implemented by a single department or agency. Big developmental projects are usually multi-faceted meaning that there is involvement of more than one or two departments. Successful implementation of these projects presupposes meticulous coordination among the participating departments. Land, labour, capital and organization are four fundamental pre-requisites of any carefully planned developmental scheme. Thus if nothing, at least Revenue, Labour, Finance and Planning Departments form the core of a developmental team. We regret to say that there are numerous instances to show that there has been persistent coordination deficit in the case of Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) in our State. We have repeatedly touched upon this subject in the columns of this paper. We even said that lack of coordination was becoming something like institutionalized phenomenon, and needed to be addressed. The Government constituted a committee to go into the matter and report how the management of this scheme could be streamlined. However, we understand that the Committee has hardly made any progress in performing the task assigned to it. The Chief Minister while heading the special meeting of the entire top brass of civil administration in July last had issued instructions that the matter of non-implementation of CSS should be investigated and bottlenecks removed. Nothing has moved in this case and status quo prevails. The net result is that the people of the State are deprived of the benefits of important schemes for no fault of theirs.
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